GameBulbGame development in a nutshell

When it comes to indie developers , it is either you work solo or with a team. According to studies more and more people are joining the indie world and many indie games are flourishing. Either ways, both has advantages and disadvantages , so if you are a solo developer who wants to join a team or vice versa, this article lists the pros and cons of being a solo indie developer

The Pros

Full Control Over Project

Since you are working solo and alone , you have full control over your project, which means you can add and modify and remove whatever you want from the game at your free will, which is a great advantages since you will make a game that represents you and your creativity and logic.

Infinite Time

Again since your working solo and indie , there is no Deadline for publishers and no team. Hence you can start and continue development on your project at any time and you can get plenty of time to make your game.

All Credits

If you made a game and it was a huge hit, who else going to get the credits? No one except you which will make you a popular developer unless you are a one hit wonder or you used a lot of assets and references .

Fast Development

If you are working on a small to medium sized game you will be able to finish it faster because you will not wait for other teammate to finish their work and that's why you can do all the work and added it to your game and you will finish at faster rate if you gave your game a lot of time for its development

The Cons

Slow Development On Long Term

It is impossible to create big to AAA sized games without the need of a team. If you stayed solo you will make forever small to medium sized game and making a big game would require years for one person but would take eight months for a full team

Lacking Skills & Experience

Let's face it, even if you have been developing games solo for lots of years , you will be still lack some skills in particular areas of game development. Everyone has a special skill that he works the best. For example you might be great at programming and scripting but your graphics needs a lot of improvement or you could make awesome graphics and maybe some sound designs but you can't make a legit code (logic) thus you will be excellent at skill and weak at another

No Collaboration & Team Spirit

Without a team there will be no collaboration and no team spirit. As solo indie developers , sometimes you'll give up and get bored from development because there is no one to discuss about your project and help you out , which makes the process of game development less fun if you don't have a friend or a teammate that helps you out and collaborate with you and you both enjoy your time making a new awesome game

Conclusion

Being an indie developer is really amazing and if you are starting solo it's a great start for you but after some time you might consider join a team or an indie studio because that will lead for more collaboration , more innovation and of course having fun through the process. Bigger and better indie teams promotes better games and more polished ones! But at the end, of course, it's up to you to choose if you want to be a solo developer or with a team.

What's Stupid Chicken 3?

Stupid Chickens 3 is the third sequel of the series which we are plan developing it. The first and the second sequel got positive reviews, good number of plays and views and now we are willing to make the third sequel more refreshed and improved. We are willing to also publish it for Android. This will be our biggest project and we want to make it the best. We need help from the community to build this game well polished and designed.

This will be our BIGGEST and GREATEST project yet! YOU can be a PART of it!

The Roles/Positions Available

We really need the following roles to be filled to start development:

Graphic Designer / 2D Artist:

Design the main characters of the game

Design the title of the game

Design the backgrounds of the game

Design props and items if needed

We need a skilled 2D artist better with good experience in Adobe Illustrator

Game Tester:We want two game tester who will test our demo and incomplete versions.

has passion for playing games

send us feedback for the bugs and features of games

send us suggestions for the game

Sound Designer/Developer:Note: this is an extra role , the development can continue without a sound designer.

Design the sound effects (SFX) of the game

Design the main soundtrack (extra soundtracks will get bonus for it)

Try Out The Game

Our game was published on game websites like Kongregate , GameJolt, and Newgrounds.Play the game and get familiar with it to see what kind of work your dealing with:

The benefits of the roles

For those who applied , there names and emails will be saved in our list for later projects and games when needed.For those who were selected for the roles will get their names and work on the credits and links for their website in the game. We will promote their work and websites and we may contact them for a payed project later on.

Note: this game is a free game and there is no financial benefits from this project. if this game gained popularity so do you since we will promote your work and add it in the credits. It's a beneficial for your later projects and work.

How To Apply

First: to apply to these roles , you must contact us from the contact page and choose "Job Offers" Topic. Then say in your email/message the role your applying to then and send your portfolio and resume and anything more details you want to add.

Second:subscribe to our newsletter if you haven't already. We will announce whom were selected for the role in the newsletter and we will send them special email/newsletter for the job. Don't forget to subscribe to know if you are selected.

We will be waiting for your applications and will check it as soon as possible,Kind Regards,Lightbulb Games Studio

It's the spring break already! We have some new contents and updates in development and updates for our website. Here are the headlines!

Open Source Blender 3D Models

As we're headed towards Unity3D, 3D is a whole new world to us , thus learning modelling is essential ! We will try to publish our finest art and models for your games. We might also add a 3D section for our Art Assets page!

New Unity3D Game Demo

We are working on a new game demo before Google removes the NPAPI plugin from its browser. More news and details can be found in our next newsletter! We will try to export our game to both Unity3d file and Webgl (HTML5) !

Another 2D Game using Construct2 !

We've started missing Construct2 already so we are going to make another great 2D game for our fans and all players. It will be an arcade/action game! Stay tuned for the details.

Note for developers: We have used Construct2 for around three years now and we say that it is the best game engine for 2D HTML5 Games and since the result is important not the tool and the type of development. We support the developers of that engine and we recommend you to try it out!

Crossy Road Article

We will be writing an article about Crossy Road a hit success game made by Unity3d by Hipster Whale!This game has made over 10 Million dollars already! Stay tuned for this article!

What is Kiwi Developer Tools?

Kiwi Developer Tools are classes made to make programming in Java easier, faster, and saves lines of code. It helps Java programmers to develop better understatement for faster ways to make things done. Sadly this is in Beta state, so there are not much classes but we will be sure to add many classes in our stable release!

Note: Project's Source Code is going to be published at GitHub!This Tools currently provides four packages:

Kiwi IO

This package allow faster and easier to manage Input and Output operation and extra few classes. Kiwi IO package handle all the exceptions and files to save lines of codes into simpler methods which are File.save() and File.load()

Kiwi Math

Tired from all the mathematical operations? Want to build an effective calculator? Then this package is right for you! This package provides with various calculation methods to solve problems. If you used all the classes from this package, consider yourself you made a full calculator!

Kiwi Word

This package is used for text editors and word processors. It provides with powerful and efficient classes to search, type, and style a text in a text editor. This package is going to help many programmers who wants to make a text editor

Kiwi Graphics

This package provides with simple tools to make graphical animation. It helps to make things move around and render and update automatically.

What is GitHub?

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over seven million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Why GitHub?

We choose GitHub because it is the best website that was made for collaboration between programmers , so all the codes and source files can be in one place for fans to get codes and sources from, thus all blog news about new Java source projects will be redirected to GitHub

Our Github Profile

Lightbulb games studio is delighted to be in partnership with Fawake ! Fawake has managed to give us the chance to publish our games on Android and later iOS. This is a very strong partnership and it said to be long partnership! With the power of Fawake and Lightbulb games studio , we will manage to give you high quality products as possible!

What is Quora?

Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are created, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The company was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.[3] Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers.[4]

What is our Blog About?

the blog description:

being a young programmer and as I'm learning Java, I'm going to give useful tips, advice, and source files to help other new Java programmers. Join in a journey to java! Don't ever give up!I trust in this saying:If there is a will, there is a wayI'll always keep you updated!

Our Main Goal From It

Our Main Goal From it is to help beginner yet little experienced Java Programmer to get Tips, Tricks, and Advice. Java Source Files are going to be send and shared with programmers so they can get experience and help. We are all in the same journey! That's why our blog is called Journey To Java !Sign up in Quora and follow us today : join us now!

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All the Java source files and projects are going to be shared at Qoura Blog, so we are not going to share Java files in this blog anymore!

Lightbulb Games Studio are offering free java files for beginners! This .java files can be later edited and then complied later to a .class files to make your own Java app. How Cool!Our free demos for now are based from the famous book by Deitel "Java how to program, edition 9".There are 3 console app, and one simple executable app.Choose the files below and download them: (Total size for all apps: 3.37 kb)Note: A read me file is included in each app with the zip for instructions.